Beer: Ratings & Reviews

Reviews by jorg2619:

4/5 rDev +8.1%look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

I bought this to try more voodoo brewing ales.

Apparently according to the brewers website there are only two recipes right now summer and winter, with intent to brew an IPA for the 4 seasons of glorious Pennsylvania. This is the summer brew (i think). The appearance pouring into my Duvel goblet is a dull amber slash orange at the base. The head is heavy which quickly drops into a unique topography of white fluffy mound/ islands that live on the orange amber sea.

The smell of this this IPA is milder than expected. I am first struck by a dull citrus smell followed by a hint of soap. A clean smell overall with no malt notes.

4 Seasons IPA tastes very citrus/ piney to me. Bitter is the beginning of this beer followed by sweet citrus notes across the middle of my tongue. The back of my throat is struck by more bitter and a dry dry finish. I am impressed with this unique IPA and have yet found a bad Voodoo Brew.

More User Reviews:

Poured a murky hazed copper color with a half finger white head atop that stuck around for awhile leaving a ring of lace as it settled.Grapefruit and leafy hop aromas with some grain and light caramel sweetness.The hop complexity on the palate was good with sharp citric notes along with grassiness and even some lingering earthiness,biscuit malts and a bit of wet grain in the finish,the alcohol added a little more zip and sweetness.Not bad, I really liked this complex ipa.

Mild haze with a deep reddish-amber color, thin off-white lacing is very sticky. Herbal and mildly citric hop, buttery yeast and bready malt fill the nostrils. Crisp medium body. Grainy, with a sweet caramel and toasted biscuity combo of maltiness up front. Hop bitterness is a little prickly with layers of sharpness that unfold. Solid hop flavor brings a sweet herbal, light citrus and faint mint to the palate. Maltiness and the buttery tone is big enough to keep the beer balanced, but the hop character is just aggressive enough to capture the drying finish with a long, lingering herbal flavor.

A very interesting and tasty IPA. Balance is the theme--the hops and malt really work together here. A good change of pace from the super hopped IPAs of today.

The beer pours an orange color with a white head. The aroma is pretty straightforward. I get a lot of pine and bread notes and not too much else. The flavor is very similar. There is a mix of pine and orange citrus notes from the hops, as well as some biscuit malt which keeps the bitterness fairly low for the style. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.

12oz bottle pulled from my fridge poured into a tulip. no freshness date, but a silver cap. based on other reviews i take this to be the spring season.

pours out a murky amber orange body with 2 fingers of an off white fluffy cap. left some very nice retention and lots of thick sticky lace.

a nicely balanced aroma. not huge, but whats there is nice. piney, earthy hops with some grapefruit citrus. just a touch spicy. balanced by some bready, biscuity, slightly caramel malt.

piney, earthy, grapefruit citrus. nicely balanced by a nice malt bill. lots of bready and biscuity malt, just a hint of carmel. i also detect a little rye like spiciness. finishes with quite a bit of lingering hop bitterness.

heavier side of medium bodied, feels more like a DIPA. smooth and velvety on the palate. easy drinking, i could definatly go for another right now.

a solid IPA, that shows a nice balance with an interesting malt bill. reminds me in all aspects of sly fox's rt.113 IPA. a solid brew, id love to give the other seasons a try. definatly worth a bottle if you can find this.

This beer was intensely carbonated, taking it out from the cooler and popping the top, it began spewing like a bottle of champagne. I figured between that and the huge amount of billowing foam that had to be poured off (literally, 1 inch of beer and 8 of foam when I first poured it) we lost about 20% of the beer.

However, overall I was very satisfied by this beer. As soon as I opened it, I could smell the fragrant floral hops and the sweet caramelly malt. It looked good in a glass once it settled down and the lacing was substantial. It tasted how it smelled, with herbally hops, but not the citrusy, piney like in West Coast IPA's, but more malt and herbal hops in the beer. The IPA coated my mouth richly and finished very well. I finished my half of the bomber and wanted more.

Appears a hazy caramel amber hue forms a thicket of dark tan head chunky textured largely bubbled thin lacing pretty scant in that department but the semi hazed hue really attracts me to this small northwestern PA brewer's product. Aromatic as all hell with citrus peels, pine cones, and grassy herbal traits this beer pretty much hits up every avenue of hoppiness complemented by caramel malt sweetness. Flavor wise this one brings brash rough raw leafy hop flavors with a touch citrus an pine with biting alcohol sneaking in. Sweetness is upfront with hops but as the caramel malts dwindle hop oils rise to the surface bringing even more bitterness, mild tree bark earthiness edging it's way onto my palate. As it warms more roasted malt and mild burnt chocolate notes kiss the palate during that malt tease this beer brings ya. Mouthfeel slightly oily not as resinous as some IPAs out there definitely more double IPA than most DIPAs that claim to be, sturdy carbonation flowing in this medium bodied brew. Drinkability is killer I could definitely down some more of this even after a 22ozer bring on the other three seasons I'm excited to see the evolution of the style Matt Allyn has to offer.

This is definitely a big and beautiful IPA.A slight chill haze to the golden orange filling the glass.Topped with a slightly off-white 2 finger head of small white bubbles that melt slowly to a white top covering ring which leaves a sticky map in it's wake.Aromas are slightly sweet malt and then lots of Orange peel fresh hops.Taste is slightly sweet malt then again, lots of fresh hops but now they are more dimensional. Oranges, grapefruit peel, pink grapefruit, and maybe a touch of pine.Aftertaste is drying citrus peel hops...very clean and fresh on the tongue and very warm and comforting going down from the high ABV %.

Mr. Goodbar cask. Winter version of IPA. Pours hazy grapefruit, with hop aromas, and Caear head. Complex hops, high IPA,felt it in the mouth yet still well malted. Most drinkable. Average mouthfeel. Something special as an IPA, and not overdone bitterness like a DIPA.

I was very excited to try this one, after reading the reviews it seemed to go either way on the good to bad scale.

It poured amber/gold with not alot of head (don't know if it was an older bottle)

I agree with some of the other reviews, it did smell a bit floral and woodsy with not very much hop.

There were no Hops in this beer I swear! Not that that is necessarily a bad thing, but it is for an IPA.. Highly carbonated and very tough to finish.. I am going to try to get the other 3 seasons to see the differences but I like my IPA's with some citrus and refreshment and this was neither.

22oz bomber into a 1/2 pint glass. Thanks to Deauane for sharing this.

We pop the cap and BAM! Foam everywhere! Uh, carbonated a little much? After we clean the mess up, we try and enjoy the beer.

Pours a clear gold, while still possessing a big foamy head. After it settles down, it actually retains pretty well with sticky hop lace all over the glass. The aroma is earthy hop character, citrus, and spicy maltiness.

The taste is similar to the aroma, with piney, earthy hops up front, citrus, and peppery notes with just the slightest amount of a malt backbone back there to even it out. Bitterness runs through the whole sip and last well into the finish. The mouthfeel is medium bodied, but as we saw before, is just too darn carbonated, which ulitmately just distracts from the overall taste.

I'm not sure what happened with this bottle. Whether is was just too gassy or it was infected, or I don't know. Maybe a re-review down the line will be in order with a different bottle but for now, it's a big black mark on an otherwise decent IPA.